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CYRIL F. ROSE. D. D.S. Some humorous — some are very sentimental — big and little ones PETER J. ROSE. D. D. S. — sedate greetings and a few that are not so sedate — but all of 623-629 SHERLAND BLDG. SOUTH BEND them are quality HALL MARK cards. THEY WILL GO FAST SO DON'T WAIT TOO LONG TO MAKE YOUR SELECTION . DR. LANDiS H. WIRT ORTHODONTIST We have some gift items $1.00 and up — for your very special Valentines. AMWCIATES •UIU»INa SOUTH BENO. INO. THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC »^^^^^^»^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^VM^^^^^V^^'WM'^^^^^» MUSIC THE WEEK By John W. Larson i FRANK WEMHOFFi Top of the Week The Men About Igor Stravinsky, who has lately taken out his first American citizenship papers, The Monogrammers try another sport. Erwin Mooney has applied for can­ has announced to the American public onization papers Mr. McAuliffe an­ something which ought to make it happy nounces the excuse most likely to succeed and proud. Or at least those Americans Situation Wanted Say you have a broken leg and who are at all aware of Stravinsky's then go out and break it Zahm's position in contemporary music should If you will consult your local trash- "Young Tom" O'Rourke has just in­ be pleased to know that Igor is "nuts" pile, Elmer Layden's transfer of fran­ vented the cigarette lighter, a sequel to about swing. In these words, at a recent chise was predicted in lemon juice in a the cigar lighter John O'Dea, no re­ press interview, Stravinsky let the world recent SCHOLASTIC. But, far from resting lation to the person of the same name in on his great passion for swing music: in sorrow, Notre Dame this week sent stuggling for control of the cosmos, lost "I love swings. I love all kinds of out blue questionnaires to outstanding a flock of berries on last Saturday's Tea swings. It is appealing to me as a com­ candidates, Crowley, Stuhldreher, Leahy, Dance will attempt to put more poser. Always I love to listen to the Anderson, Carideo, etc. Sorin's janitor, money in circulation this week Bill good swings orchestras. Not only in thi.<* Alex, while spraying tobacco juice all Mulvey, who wonders if they shoot off country but in Paris. When the players around Sorin Sub, confided to intimates the Yacht Club's cannon on Washing­ go by themselves it is wonderful, I that, he was secretly Booming Heiny ton's Birthday, has originated another think. I have always stayed with them. Schrenker for the vacancy. movement, Hatracks for Halos an­ Now it is to the Harlem I go. It is so • other movement will be his last We sympathetic to watch the negro boys would like to blast forever those cracks and girls dancing and to watch them Football about Scrip's endings the boys just eating the long, what is it you call them, Qualification Test No. I haven't reached that chapter in the frankfurters, no — hot dogs — in the course yet Buber and Fallon, pre- long roles. And the ham on the plain (Married men may not accept children's help) meds, at "Kitty Foyle":... "Was that paper. It is so sympathetic." Are you equipped with a personal ghost last scene supposed to happen before the writer? first or after the last?" Brutz, Bro- Stravinsky is so attracted to swing Do you favor orange juice or apples be­ sey, Ziemba, Bereolos, Bagarus, McHale, that he thinks he will try writing some tween halves? going or gone and who even wants to be of it himself. All music ought to be an How many footballs do you own? a coach? expression of the soul of the people, he things. Boogie-woogie is precisely that, Do you drive a Studebaker? Igor says. This, then, is some indication Do you know that the Dome is peeling? Boner of the Week of at least part of the American soul. Would you make Joe Boland reduce? We quote the SCHOLASTIC of Jan. 24 Where do you get your jokes? on page 6 "Graduate students have It is comforting to know that Igor Stravinsky sanctions, with enthusiastic Does our team look better in green or been especially unfortunate in securing positions after leaving school" Truth approval, such a basic element of our blue? is stranger than fiction or, brother, can American culture. In times like these it Have you seen "Philadelphia Story"? you spare a proofreader? • Realism is unquestionably flattering to us that Do you believe in the forward pass? If or hypocrisy, take your pick. the utter goodness of things American so, why? be called to our attention with all pos­ What is your draft number? sible fanfare. We like to have people My O'Dea say that they like the fundamental Define pep talk. things of America. We are more tlian Discuss briefly the philosophy of sports­ The library, we hear, is to have brand glad that Stravinsky plans to write manship. new lights in the reading room. Accord­ some hot music. If he incorporates into Outline in gibberish the history of the ing to unimpeachable sources, the pres­ his swing the elements of his tremen­ roll block. ent lights were never meant for reading, dous interest in the pure classical form, but some one (we don't know who) for­ What will you do if the schedule con­ something of his interest in ancient got to obtain table lamps. Now we are flicts with the fencing team? liturgical, musical forms and his un­ to have them, and we hope that the equalled atohality, then we ought to What's that on your necktie? young men of the University will start have an art form unrivalled. -to read, even if only to prevent all that (All tests must be submitted to the extra light from going to waste. Contest Editor, Notre Dame U. Entries must be postmarked no later than Spring Practice. All entries remain the sole Applications Available property of the sponsors.) Bottom of the week Accounting majors and combination After the usual amount of coin-flip­ Three frosh walking along the main accounting-law majors from this year's ping, politics, telegrams, rumors, cigar quad. graduating class, qualified for appoint­ exchanging, and haggling, the winner "I passed and I didn't use any cribs, ments with the Federal Bureau of In­ vestigation, may secure application will probably be Jim Crowley because he either." forms from Dean James E. McCarihy's believes in de-emphasizing the touch­ "Me too." oflice in the Commerce Building. down. "Me too." THE NOTRE DAME SCHOLASTIC blue streamers and told everyone to "Give Him an E , It's the AMERIC.-VN way!" It made the Parade feel very bad COLLEGE PARADE for as he looked at the alarm clock strapped securely to his wrist he realized RAYMOND J. KELLY that it was not an E and what did that make Mother and Dad who had Where's Who Dept. War Talk given him the watch that memorable day when he was put out of high school When the Parade found that readers Since the blitzkrieg has become part for good? were interested in the short note we of our every-day language, the Parade ran sometime ago about the where­ has ob.served various stupid symptoms abouts of the little man with the green of the same hysteria that, during the hat, we decided that news of our not­ last war turned sauerkraut into "Liberty Sport News ables would be faithfully reported if and cabbage" and prompted concert masters when they burst into print in some col­ to ban Wagner's woi'ks as "subversive." When we read a story in the San legiate publication. Naturally, some ref­ Others have noticed this same foolish­ Francisco Foghorn recently we resolved erence should be made to the picture ness that some think constitutes patriot­ to print it because it would have such section that camouflaged the latest issue ism. Much has been made of the fact wide appeal. George Meltzer would read of Bunthorne's Gazette, when it slipped that people, who wouldn't know the first it because the story concerns Aquinas under our door last Monday. Though it stanza of the "Star-Spangled Banner" if and Sam Neild would probably like it may have seemed like just another pub­ it was recited to them, rise and remove because it takes place on a golf course. licity shot faked for the occasion by the their hats when a swing band breaks It seemed that St.